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austan goolsbee is a professor at the school of business and former adviser to president obama and a edward lazear is former adviser to george w. bush. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >> start with the job numbers on friday. the last jobs report before the election. what do they tell us about 34erk's economy today? what impact do you expect it to have on the election? >> i don't think it will have much impact on the election because it is not that a much different from the overall trend over the last year ito 18 months. i think it was a fairly solid number. certainly better than expected and you got some revisions upward on the jobs number itself. overall, growth has been relative ly modest in the u.s. and that's reflected in the jobs number. this is an encouraging month. you never want to make too much out of any one month. >> i was surprised at the numbers. ed, what do you think? >> i think there are good things that each candidate can take out of it. obviously the fact the unemployment rate ticked up to something governor romney will emphasize, higher
austan goolsbee is a professor at the school of business and former adviser to president obama and a edward lazear is former adviser to george w. bush. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >> start with the job numbers on friday. the last jobs report before the election. what do they tell us about 34erk's economy today? what impact do you expect it to have on the election? >> i don't think it will have much impact on the election because it is not that...
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what is president obama thinking these days? what can we expect of the fiscal cliff negotiations, robert wolf is an outside adviser to president obama. former president of investment banking at ubs and ceo of the firm 32 advisers. great to see you. >> great to be here, marie a ya. >> thank you for joining us. you are a rare breed. a top wall street executive but off close relationship with the president. talk to us about this drama over the fiscal cliff. are we still in the posturing stage? how does this play out? >> i hope it plays out with a deal the. i would have probably put it around 80% a deal, but i would have sliced it this way. i would say 50% of that 80 is they come up with like $60 billion, which is six months of the ten years of the 1.2 trillion sequester. >> okay. >> okay. so something like -- >> a drop in the bucket. >> a drop in the bucket. you could do that and if you were doing that you would have to say okay and we are going to pass the debt ceiling. that gets you to march enor april and it forms a good basis.
what is president obama thinking these days? what can we expect of the fiscal cliff negotiations, robert wolf is an outside adviser to president obama. former president of investment banking at ubs and ceo of the firm 32 advisers. great to see you. >> great to be here, marie a ya. >> thank you for joining us. you are a rare breed. a top wall street executive but off close relationship with the president. talk to us about this drama over the fiscal cliff. are we still in the...
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we can disagree with some details but for the most part the bush team and obama team did to follow it were pretty much on the same path. dimpss in terms of how big the stimulus and whether there should be a stimulus and so forth. for the most part we did agree on that and there's a role for government and a role for regulation. i would have a slightly more cautious eye to regulation perhaps than a surks stan but we agree on international trade and think it is important in terms of growing the economy and think that fiscal consolidation is necessary. we may differ in terms of how much on the tax side, how much on the expenditures side, but the basic points i think are not ones on which we disagree. >> that's important because we have real issues we are trying to figure out how to compromise. great to talk to you both. appreciate it. >> great to see you. >> austan goolsbee and edward lazear. >>> the final hours before decision day 2012. america is voting. . the man that correctly predicted much of the 2008 outcome and what the numbers say this year. nate silver will join me. and the big
we can disagree with some details but for the most part the bush team and obama team did to follow it were pretty much on the same path. dimpss in terms of how big the stimulus and whether there should be a stimulus and so forth. for the most part we did agree on that and there's a role for government and a role for regulation. i would have a slightly more cautious eye to regulation perhaps than a surks stan but we agree on international trade and think it is important in terms of growing the...
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president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> as sandy impacted the northeast, many kept in touch with loved ones or stayed up to date on news from social media. joining me to talk about on-line engagement and what it means about the future. b . tell us, what the pick sure said while sandy was hitting landfall and what it has been saying since the storm. >> it was amazing. on the day of the storm when it really hit we got 2 million visitors that day. with an enormous am of traffic people seem to be at home by and largrge in their homes looking share what was going on in their various neighborhoods. many of the most credible reports of what was going on, areas flooded, it was on social media. it was pivotal moment. >> for many 0 who lost power during the storm a working smartptphone was the only way t get information. >> ta was remarkable to me. how much information we were having. operating our company how many employees were able to work in lower manhattan as the power and water was out. the cell towe
president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> as sandy impacted the northeast, many kept in touch with loved ones or stayed up to date on news from social media. joining me to talk about on-line engagement and what it means about the future. b . tell us, what the pick sure said while sandy was hitting landfall and what it has been saying since the storm. >> it was amazing. on the day of the storm when it really hit we got 2 million visitors that day. with...
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you bet joe scar borough a cash charitable donation that barack obama would win. you're such a numbers guy, was it appropriate to play the political game? >> i don't going to make a comment on correct journalistic standards. it's very natural for me where you have a view or belief and think the odds are in your favor, then it's an honorable thing to put money down on it. i'm not sure if yts the new york times would agree with that point of view necessarily. >> i guess the question is, how can we trust your model. there's been so much discussion over the polls and so much subjectivity, you yourself have said that polls are subjective and you were an obama supporter in 2008. >> i think i try to provide scientific objectivity. and looking at as a math me tigs and looking at numbers in baseball and poker and other fields. i think journalistic objectivity is a more he said she said kind of thing. maybe people in that field have trouble understanding we're looking at history and math and data to guide our view of the race and that we're telling you that we might be wron
you bet joe scar borough a cash charitable donation that barack obama would win. you're such a numbers guy, was it appropriate to play the political game? >> i don't going to make a comment on correct journalistic standards. it's very natural for me where you have a view or belief and think the odds are in your favor, then it's an honorable thing to put money down on it. i'm not sure if yts the new york times would agree with that point of view necessarily. >> i guess the question...